Personal Coaching

02/10/2015

Happiness starts with the desire to intentionally create a life of purpose--a life in which we choose to use our unique set of gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Our life is full of choices.

You get to choose where to prioritize your time, and time is limited. Will you choose to spend time with your children, or will you choose to spend time working? At the end of life, you will not wish you had gotten one more thing done. You'll wish you had attended the baseball game where your son hit his only home run.

The perfect career or business for you will blend your unique strengths, talents, interests and priorities into an opportunity to pursue a worthwhile, meaningful purpose in a work environment that will fit your personality and style.

You alone are responsible for creating the life you desire.

The bottom line is you get to decide what you want from your life. No one else can do this for you. Once you have decided, you have to act upon the discovery you have made.

12/22/2014

The actionable tips you receive make the abstract concrete, provide useful technique and suggest that the full spectrum of consciousness encompasses both the physical and a multitude of nonphysical dimensions of reality.

Don't read these insights with your mind only. Watch for a "feeling-response" and a smart sense of recognition from deep within you. Coached to Success aims to reach that place within you where you already know and where the truth is recognized when it is heard.

It is our hope that Coached to Success will reach those who find the content worthy of consideration--even though they may not be ready to fully live or practice what they read. Perhaps, at a later time, the seed that was sown while reading an insight will merge with the seed of enlightenment, that one carries within, and suddenly sprout and come alive.

12/03/2014

What we believe we can achieve, we achieve. Yet, when we believe we are not good enough to achieve something, we don't. Fear is the only thing that holds people back from achieving personal success. Success lies in being who you are, not in what you fear you should be. What you think, happens to you.

Everyone strives for success in one form or another.

People need to achieve worthwhile goals to feel satisfied with their lives, but everyone's goals vary. We all need to become the kind of person we individually aspire to be. Only you know what's important in achieving your vision of success. However, we all seek shared outcomes, like happiness, self-awareness and expression, achievement and satisfying interpersonal relationships, to provide a foundation for where we want to be.

You can drastically increase your chances of succeeding in business and life when you learn from a coach or mentor--someone who once stood in your place and overcame all obstacles to earn success and happiness. Coaching and mentoring provide the personal training that helps you focus your natural abilities in the right direction. Coached to Success insights allow your inner potential to erupt out toward success.

An important aspect of self-discovery occurs when we recognize that individuals are all unique, that each of us sees the world through our specific lens. This is the perspective from the inside looking out. We’re not better or worse, we’re just unique. When we accept that fact, we begin to understand the importance of allowing individuals to approach situations in their own way, both in personal and professional arenas.

11/24/2014

On demand, immediate learning in digestable bites allows for on-the-job application while fitting easily into action-packed schedules. Research indicates that people learn better, retain more and are positively motivated when supported by regular and frequent coaching.

As powerful and effective as professional coaching can be, it is only affordable to less than one percent of the workforce.

That is why self-coaching insights, easily retrieved from a mobile smartphone, tablet, e-reader or laptop, grabs managers’ attention with compelling content to make them feel a sense of urgency to act on what they learned.

In psychology, the term “thin slicing” refers to the brain’s ability to draw surprisingly accurate conclusions from very limited information. Applied to leadership development, thin slicing is about isolating thin slices of learning and delivering powerful insights from a single bite-size concept. Instead of starting big, it starts small. A short, incomplete slice of learning can deliver a powerful “Aha” moment and create behavior change more effectively than a longer learning module or conversation that tries to cover too much:

1) Workplace performance coaching should be delivered in short bursts – just six to 10 minutes at a time. Today’s multi-tasking workforce has neither the time nor the attention span for traditional lengthy training formats.

3) Performance coaching and self-coaching are most powerful when grounded in verifiable research. When managers see performance coaching and self-coaching as credible, they’re more likely to translate their learning into on-the-job behavior.

For example, the background for our career women book series evolved from working with a succession of coaching clients. We realized that women do not automatically experience the same professional issues that men routinely face.

Instead, they stuggle to be all things to all people--and along the way they neglect themselves and their own priorities. What we discovered serves as the backbone for these books, and for their solutions, strategies and essential tools.

11/21/2014

When a person faces a challenge and becomes stuck, he or she may seek the services of a personal coach. Once this commitment is made, the person begins to experience a different, more hopeful, world as his or her perceptions evolve in meeting the personal challenge.

As powerful and effective as professional coaching can be, it is only affordable to less than one percent of the workforce.

What is Coached to Success?

Coached to Success is dedicated to providing insightful self-coaching to help you achieve your life goals.

John G. Agno shares his decades of professional coaching and consulting knowledge to create a better life for many through proprietary self-coaching guides; delivered to your smart phone, tablet, eReader, and computer or via low-cost paperback books.

Agno knows what caused the strain, stress and frustration of his successful clients in order to help them create effective and profitable solutions.

The purpose of Coached to Success is to communicate these unique insights in blog postings and self-help books at prices so low that as many people as possible are able to afford and use them in their personal and professional lives. These powerful self-coaching solutions can deliver life-changing possibilities for those willing to allow their perceptions to evolve.